The new US President Barack Obama has assigned Net Neutrality Advocate Kevin Werbach to be new co-chairman of the FCC Department once the government transition takes effect on Q1 2009. The interesting bit of news here is that Kevin Werbach is well-known to be a World of Warcraft player since early 2006. Kevin Werbach is an observer of technology trends and played the MMO in order to study its social and economical aspects: "I play Warcraft because it’s fun. It’s taking time away from watching TV, reading books, and other entertainment pursuits. But I’m also playing because I believe MMOGs will be one of the primary forms of social software for the next decade. Defined broadly, they may become the dominant form of social software. And you can’t understand games without experiencing them first-hand."-- said Kevin Werbach in his blog back on February 2006.

Those outside USA who do not know what the FCC is, it stands for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - charged by the commisioners appointed by the US President with regulating all non-federal government use of the radio spectrum (including radio and television broadcasting), and all interstate telecommunications (wire, satellite and cable) as well as all international communications that originate or terminate in the United States. Having a World of Warcraft player in the FCC foreshadows great potential for the MMO genre.

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